Finnish leader Kallio dies of heart attack in Helsinki crowd
President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud’s successor Risto Ryti was elected just hours earlier as Kallio, frail and tired, rode to the station with his wife amid cheering crowds. On the platform soldiers stood in honor as Kallio collapsed and Baron Mannerheim helped him. He had greeted a hoped-for quiet life before farewell to public duties.
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LSINK
Finland
Osti Kallio
Baron Gustaf Mannerheim
Helsinki
Risto Ryti
Kallio
Baron Mannerheim
Ryu
Cotton Bales Ginned in Union Parish Decline Since 1939
Thomas J. Smith, special agent for the Bureau of the Census, reports 10 964 bales of cotton ginned in Union parish from the 1940 crop before December 1, down from 14 372 bales in the same period of 1939 highlighting a drop in output.
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Marion
Thomas J. Smith
Bureau of the Census
Union Parish
Taking Course Delhi Dee ee ee eer H Black
Dee ee ee eer H Black of Delhi is noted as the son of A M Black in an unclear excerpt from the Delhi area. The fragmentary line references a familial connection without detailing a specific event date or context.
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Delhi
Dee
H. Black
A. M. Black
Bombsight Maintenance Course Held at Savannah Base
A training program in bombsight maintenance is conducted by the Armament Department of the United States Army Air Corps at Savannah Army Air Base Georgia. The course trains personnel in the upkeep and operation of bombsight equipment for aerial missions.
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Armament Department
United States Army Air Corps
Savannah Air Base
Savannah, Ga
The War Today by DeWitt MacKenzie on World War II panorama
The columnist argues Britain faces a grave test in the Mediterranean as Nazi bombing and the English channel threat loom. Italian setbacks boost Britain while Mussolini’s Africa forces crumble. Haile Selassie’s Ethiopian revolt gains momentum aided by the British.
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DeWitt MacKenzie
Aoian
Mediterranean
Britain
England
Hitler
Mussolini
Fuehrer
English Channel
Channel
Sahara
Italy
Crete
Greece
Africa
Marshal Graziani
Libya
el Wak
Haile Selassie
Lion of Judah
Ethiopia
Boy Gives Life To Buy Present For Sweetheart
In Washington on a December morning William Hunter a College Point resident died in a truck where he slept to save a dollar for a Christmas gift. The CCC veteran had ridden from Whitestone Long Island to deliver flowers and used a small charcoal stove in the back of the vehicle. Coroner reports he suffocated from oxygen depletion as the stove burned. A letter from his girlfriend and the lone dollar were found in his pockets.
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Washington
Dec
William Hunter
Hunter
CCC
Whitestone
Long Island
College Point
L. J
N J C Air School Plans Inflight Radio Installations
Northeast Junior College aviation training will add radio traffic control with receivers in each plane and a transmitter in the flight office after filing with the FCC for permission. The system uses frequency 276 and costs an estimated 345 to 260 dollars for apparatus. Ground school will receive obsolete instruments from Middletown Air Depot including compasses, tachometers, altimeters, clock assemblies, and flight gauges.
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School of Aeronautics
Northeast Junior College
F. L. Severance
Federal Communications Commission
Severance
British Repulse German Attack Near Ypre
British forces repulsed a German assault near Ypres, reported by the Associated Press. The action occurred as fighting intensified on the Western Front with both sides sustaining losses.
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Associated Press
Ypree
Unluckiest thief bungles another Philadelphia break in
West Philadelphia report recounts a burglar alarm that woke Joseph Scott to an intruder barking like a dog. In a later home, Hyman Sherman challenged a prowler who asked for family members by name, but no one responded and the intruder fled shouting names that did not exist.
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Philadelphia
West Philadelphia
Joseph Scott
Rose
Phyllis
William
Sherman
Adolph
Oak Grove High stages Santa Claus operetta
The Oak Grove High School Parent-Teacher Association presented the operetta Santa Claus directed by Maudie Everett with L L James Laura Mae Williams Mary Alice Castleman and J Bordon Golden assisting. Caroline Travis accompanied piano. cast included Betty Macvjor Katherine Keller Jimmy Spanky Wilson and others. The West Carroll parish music supervisor Charles Lukmann led the band and glee club in new performances. Proceeds fund campus walkways.
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Oak Grove
Oak Grove High School
Santa Claus
Maudie Everett
Everett
L. L. James
Laura Mae Williams
Mary Alice Castleman
J. Bordon Golden
Caroline Travis
Betty
Macvjor
Katherine Keller
Jimmy
Glee Club
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Lou Re
Jack Frost
Kyosti Kallio
Monroe, LA
N. J. C. Air School
Vicks
Rectan Ile
Olar
Darrett’s
St. John
Monroe
Scott
Hyman Sherman
Mir
Suening Sandals
Parent-Teacher Association
Chenille
Val
Gasua
Play Shoes
DeSiard
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